This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/834.1123.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jan -- I only know that Thomas J. Speck for sure was TJ Parrott's father. You probably know that Emeline Parrott did briefly marry Fielding Fulp(s), and that they had a son William Robert (and I haven't been able to trace him or Fielding because the spelling of the name varies so widely). I've never heard even a clue as to the paternity of the 3 little girls. I tend to doubt that it was Speck, as he married and settled down very respectably, and even married his daughter into one of the Greene County, TN Presbyterian ministerial families. He lived out the rest of his life in Hamblen County as a dentist. I don't know if he even had any contact with T.J. I also understood that Lula was only a toddler when the Hickses adopted her because they had no natural children. But I've never discovered where or how Emeline died, except that TJ said it was August, 1873.